Shelford | |
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Location | |
Place | Great Shelford |
Local authority | District of South Cambridgeshire |
Grid reference | TL465522 |
Operations | |
Station code | SED |
Managed by | Abellio Greater Anglia |
Owned by | Network Rail |
Number of platforms | 2 |
DfT category | E |
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections from National Rail Enquiries |
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Annual rail passenger usage* | |
2011/12 | 0.146 million |
2012/13 | 0.154 million |
2013/14 | 0.153 million |
2014/15 | 0.160 million |
2015/16 | 0.175 million |
History | |
Key dates | Opened 1845 |
National Rail – UK railway stations | |
* Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Shelford from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year. | |
Shelford railway station serves the villages of Great Shelford, Little Shelford and Stapleford in Cambridgeshire, England.
The station was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway in 1845 and later became a junction with the opening of the Stour Valley Railway from Haverhill on 1 June 1865. The subsequent completion of the line onwards to Sudbury a few months later created a through link with Colchester on the Great Eastern main line. This was used by through holiday trains between Clacton-on-Sea and the East/West Midlands in LNER and British Rail days but then fell victim to the Beeching Axe, closing to all traffic on 6 March 1967.
A train leaves hourly in each direction off peak and half-hourly peak. The 'Up' (London) train calls at Whittlesford, Great Chesterford, Audley End, Newport (Essex), Elsenham, Stansted Mountfitchet, Bishops Stortford, Sawbridgeworth, Harlow Mill, Harlow Town, Roydon, Broxbourne, Cheshunt and Tottenham Hale before terminating at Liverpool Street.
The 'Down' train (away from London) goes to Cambridge.
Coordinates: 52°08′56″N 0°08′24″E / 52.149°N 0.140°E